Dr Angela L. Coe

I'm a sedimentologist and stratigrapher with a particular interest in understanding palaeoenvironmental change, detecting past changes in sea-level and refining the geological timescale. My research focuses on:

the development and application of sequence stratigraphy to Jurassic strata

development of new proxies for environmental change and the Jurassic geological timescale.

I manage and run a suite of laboratories for the preparation of sedimentary deposits for palaeontological and isotopic analyses.

PhD students

I currently supervise five PhD students (Adele Julier, Felicity Rhodes, Matthew Saker-Clark, Nick Loughlin, Carrie Walker and Julie Harrald). These research projects are all based on understanding palaeoclimate change and including using microfossils, cyclostratigraphy and developing new isotopic proxies.

All but one of my previous postgraduate students are working as Earth science academics/researchers or as geologists for the oil industry. I am always interested to hear from potential students, visitors and postdocs who want to come and do research in the field of sedimentology or stratigraphy. I have lots of experience to share as I was departmental postgraduate tutor from 1998 to 2012.

The closing date for PhD projects starting in October 2017 has passed but if you are interested in doing a PhD with me please do get in contact.

Undergraduate Teaching

I teach a broad range of Earth Science disciplines including: sedimentology, stratigraphy, palaeoclimatology, palaeontology, field skills, earth system science, basin analysis, geophysics and general geology. I have also contributed towards science communication.

Practical Science: Earth and Environment (SXG288). Member of the core team that set up the module, module team chair (2009- ), topic team leader and author for Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils in the field as well as contributing to the topic Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in the Field.

Earth Science (S209), module currently in production. First presentation will be October 2014.

Environmental Change: the record in the rocks (SXR369). Set up and authored the module, module team chair (2001-2011) however this module is no longer available. I also authored material and was a member of the module team for the following courses that are no longer available: S260 Geology, S268 Physical Resources and the Environment, S338 Sedimentary Processes and Basin Analysis. I have contributed towards S339 Understanding the continents, SXR260 The Geological History of the British Isles and S330 Oceanography.

Academic consultant for Dorset and Devon County Councils in their successful bid to make the Dorset and south Devon a World Heritage Site (2001). Specialist in Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian stratigraphy covering some 30 miles of the site.

Editorial Board for Geology (2009-2011)

Member of Council of the Yorkshire Geological Society (1994–1997)

Leader and organizer of many field trips for academia, amateur geology groups and the oil industry to Dorset, Yorkshire, Northumberland

Designing and uploading content to this website!

Qualifications

D.Phil. (University of Oxford) on sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic in England